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2009-10-13
Since we have been using Git and Github for our code repository I thought it relevant to write a how-to on using both these resources with respect to the Antelope contributed code. Many thanks to Geoff Davis for help with this!!

2009-09-14
We heard today that for the month of August 2009 the real time data return rate from the USArray at the ANF was 99.31%! Wow. That trumps the 85% minimum required by the project, AND data return rates from any other real time seismic network, globally...

2009-09-09
A little tutorial on using Antelope's amakelocal to ensure that Antelope knows about your PHP and Python (and Matlab, etc, ad nauseam) installations.

2009-07-24
I have been working with Antelope and Matlab a lot lately. Here is a little how-to on transforming epoch times that Antelope returns to you and converting them to Matlab-friendly serial-numbers that can be used to make nice time-axis ticks on your graphs.

2009-05-26
At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco learning about all the cool new toys Google has been cooking up in its labs...

2009-05-01
Behind the curve on this one.... Just installed TextMate and added the Git bundle for revision control. Sweet! And to think I thought Vim was nice....
Here is a good intro on how to use Git to maintain a website: dmiessler.com

Me with Mt. McKinley in the background, Denali, Alaska, September 2006

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I am a geophysics programmer/analyst/researcher at the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. I am currently involved in several projects that are porting realtime data in Antelope Datascope databases and object ring buffers (ORBs) onto the world wide web through use of the Antelope Realtime system and the PHP Hypertext Processor protocol.

I organize the Webheads discussion group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Every month a talk on a current or emerging software, system or web-based technology is presented by a group member or invited outside speaker. We have recently had talks on jQuery, Django, Plone, YUI and MVC frameworks.

I am an Associate Editor for manuscripts published in the popular column Electronic Seismologist supplement for Seismic Research Letters and Computers and Geoscience.

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Projects

Antelope Realtime Systems and the Internet

In concert with several other developers, I am working on porting the X-windows based Antelope Real Time Software suite to a web-based platform using Perl, PHP and Python. Some Antelope documentation I have written is listed below:

Websites Using the Antelope PHP Interface (Datascope, Orb and sysinfo)

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2004

  • Newman, R.L., Lindquist, K.G., Hansen, T.S., Vernon, F.L., Eakins, J. and Foley, S., 2004, Web-based Data Mining to Systematically Determine Data Quality From the EarthScope USArray Seismic Observatory Project, Fall 2004 AGU Meeting.
  • Kilb, D., Bowen, J., Eakins, J., Lindquist, K.G., Martynov, V., Newman, R.L., Otero, J., Prieto, G., Vernon, F.L., Ziegler, L., 2004, Generation of 3D interactive visualization tools pertaining to significant earthquakes in southern California & noteworthy global earthquakes, SCEC Meeting.
  • Nayak, A.M., Vernon, F.L., Kent, G., Orcutt, J., Kilb, D., Newman, R.L., Smarr, L., DeFanti, T., Leigh, J., Renambot, L. and Johnson, A., 2004, High resolution visualization of USArray data on a 50 megapixel display using OptIPuter technologies, Fall 2004 AGU Meeting.
  • Eakins, J., Vernon, F.L., Martynov, V., Newman, R.L. and Foley, S., 2004, USArray Array Network Facility (ANF): Metadata, Network and Data Monitoring, and Quality Assurance During the First Year of Operations, Fall 2004 AGU Meeting.

2003

  • Nayak A.M., Kilb D., Newman R., Kent G., Vernon F.L. and Orcutt J., 2004, The Potential Role of the Optiputer in the Earthscope Project, Seimological Society of America.
  • Newman, R.L., Kilb, D., Nayak, A.M. and Kent, G., 2003, The Role of Research Institutions in Building Visual Content for the Geowall, Fall 2003 AGU Meeting.
  • Nayak, A. M., Lindquist, K., Kilb, D., Newman, R., Vernon, F. L., Leigh, J., Johnson, A. and Renambot, L., 2003, Using 3D Glyph Visualization to Explore Real-time Seismic Data on Immersive and High-resolution Display Systems, Fall 2003 AGU Meeting.
  • Lindquist, K.G., Newman, R.L., Nayak, A.M., Vernon, F.L., Nelson, C., Hansen, T.S. and Yuen-Wong, R, 2003, Dynamic Web Expression for Near-real-time Sensor Networks, Fall 2003 AGU Meeting.

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